Ravnica feels like one of the most interesting plane of Magic to play a campaign in (maybe other than Strixhaven). A giant city with layers and layers of secrets is just so cool
Two Simic Ideas: An Astral Self Monk, mutating yourself to have extra arms and so on. A Dragon Soul Sorcerer powered by Electric Eel organs in your body
@@TheClericCorner agreed, though I did some looking up and it seems the Selesnya have a few darker moments too, still an interesting idea for a solarpunk game
@@Drag0nk1ngmark well everthing starts with 1 selesnya, then 2, the 4, the 8, then 16.... then you have a army bigger than half of Ravnica 🤣🤣🤣 oh sweet token times with selesnya in mtg
@@Drag0nk1ngmark and I like how their lider is a old nymph that exist in the center of their guild. She have a really important job in maintaining life in Ravnica.
One idea I had is a dhampir wizard who works as an advokist in the Orzhov Syndicate, with a vampire parent. Imagine a combination of Dracula, Saul Goodman and Tom Hagen from the Godfather. A literal blood sucking lawyer.
Ravnica is my favorite setting, every guild has its own flavor and its so hard to just pick one, House Dimir is close to my heart tho. Btw a small mispelling in the Golgari Swarm, you wrote and said "Galgari" 😉
Jace: Peace, I have to do something in another plane *expend 4 months out of Ravnica.* Guilds: Well.... Is time to war. Campains in this setting are so fun. I DM a session with a Boros minotaur eldrish knight, A human Dimir assassin, A human Azzorius cleric and a Tabaxi monk that was inclined to selesnya but wasn't committed yet. Was REALLY fun to see the bickery in the table!
I would love to play a guildless Sherlock Holmes style detective, or maybe they do belong to a guild but masquerade as guildless to appear more trustworthy to their many clients. Inquistive Rogue or Masterminf Rogue, maybe mixed with wizard to get detection spells and things to solve mysteries. Seems very cool for a mystery/political intrigue campaign in this setting.
When the book first came out, I tried to run a Ravnica campaign. I was a new DM and I didn't know how to run a game, much less one set in Ravnica. And so, it fizzled out pretty quickly. But I might write up some notes for one at some point, now that my knowledge and note taking has vastly improved. My party was a Gruul Clan Elf Ranger, an Izzet League Knowledge Cleric/Divination Wizard, and a Golgari Circle of Spores Druid. A bit of a hectic and spread-out group to try and run a game for, all told.
So we have ravnica, we have theros, we have strixhaven, bits of planes like Dominaria, Kaladesh and Ixalan and fan takes on planes like Kamigawa, Kaldheim and New Capenna... At this rate a multiversal mtg campaign is literally possible w/o guesswork... The kicker is how to make it uniquely different mechanically speaking from other settings. I wonder if one can fit a 60 card, maybe 30 card instead, of mtg as an alternate combat system with decks built to represent the character's method and philosophy and a color-based alignment system.
Honestly, Ravnica as a setting does feel a bit weak and artificial in a vacuum, but it's guilds make for fantastic copy-paste-tweak factions to put into any high magic setting. Really enjoyed some of the character ideas here as well, with plenty of newer subclasses being retroactively applied here.
(Trying this again, since my internet cut out when I tried to post this comment) Hey, my dad's been talking about wanting to run Darksun for my group sometime. I only know that it's a post-apocalyptic climate change allegory, but I was wondering if you could maybe do a video for Darksun character ideas? Great video, btw
This is the best video introduction I have seen to Ravnica as a D&D setting. But I disagree about Boros being chaotic. It is full of disciplined soldiers, paladins and even angels. The name 'Legion' should be clue enough, and Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica gives its alignment as "usually good, often lawful". There is certainly room to play a chaotic character in Boros. But in time-honoured tradition, when you break the rules, your boss will punish you in some way, or take you off the case. In my opinion, chaotic good is the alignment most likely to be guildless. I would imagine Selesnya most likely has the highest proportion of chaotic good members. Of course, Grull and both the mad science guilds are full of people who regard themselves as doing good, but are tragically misunderstood by the more hidebound guilds.
AZORIUS SENATE Human Artificier (Armorer) Human Barbarian (Path of Zealot) Human Bard (College of Eloquence, a lawyer) Vedalken Warlock (Primordial Patron - Pact of the Tome, i thought it was the best patron to represent Isperia, glad if you can find some kind of Sphinx Patron Homebrew) Vedalken Cleric (Order Domain) Half-Elf Druid (Arctic Land Circle//Dimir Agent) Vedalken Ranger (Horizon Walker) Human Fighter (Master of Battle) Human Sorcerer (Clockwork Soul) Vedalken Wizard (Divination) Human Monk (Way of the Four Elements - Air) Centaur Paladin (Oath of the Crown, she betrayed the Gruul Clans) Human Rogue (Inquisitor, some kind of detective/policemen)
BOROS LEGION Human Artificer (Alquemist, some kind of Battle Healer) Minotaur Barbarian (Path of Berserker//Dimir Agent) Viashino (Lizardfolk) Warlock (Celestial Patron - Pact of the Blade, to represent Aurelia) Minotaur Cleric (Light Domain) Human Druid (Wildfire Circle) Human Ranger (Beastmaster, her pet is a dog with armor) Goblin Fighter (Banneret, Even the tiniest of people can influence the course of the future) Human Sorcerer (Elementalist - Fire) Human Wizard (Bladesinger) Minotaur Monk (Way of the Sun) Human Paladin (Oath of Devotion) Goblin Rogue (Sawsbuckler)
HOUSE DIMIR Dhampir Cleric (Trickery Domain) Human Bard (Whisper College) Human Sorcerer (Shadow Magic) Human Monk (Way of Shadows) The other classes can be found on their respective infiltrated guilds
I thought the subclass was perfect for a mesh of the two guilds what with the emphasis on enchantment and divination + subtle casting + tentacles and weird body horror
Ravnica feels like one of the most interesting plane of Magic to play a campaign in (maybe other than Strixhaven). A giant city with layers and layers of secrets is just so cool
My favorites would always be Mirrodin and Zendikar
Two Simic Ideas: An Astral Self Monk, mutating yourself to have extra arms and so on.
A Dragon Soul Sorcerer powered by Electric Eel organs in your body
Ooh! Sprouting tentacles out of your back on command? Sign me up!
@@TheClericCorner You may wanna fix that typo
@@llewelynshingler2173 ohhh dear...😂
Woo! Awesome video, Ravnica is one of my favorite settings!
One day I will get to play in it! 😂
Honestly for me the Selesnya guild sounds like a fun guild, especially as I am a fan of Solarpunk and imagine they can do good for the world.
Absolutely! A great reference to pull out for a whole solar punk game too!
@@TheClericCorner agreed, though I did some looking up and it seems the Selesnya have a few darker moments too, still an interesting idea for a solarpunk game
@@Drag0nk1ngmark well everthing starts with 1 selesnya, then 2, the 4, the 8, then 16.... then you have a army bigger than half of Ravnica 🤣🤣🤣 oh sweet token times with selesnya in mtg
@@Drag0nk1ngmark and I like how their lider is a old nymph that exist in the center of their guild. She have a really important job in maintaining life in Ravnica.
They also had a cult vibe in the first two Ravnica blocks, bringing it back would make the guild a lot more interesting
Simic is the best because we have C R A B
Love for the plane Ravnica. the Guilds are wonderful and flavorful. the race diversity is greatly appreciated.
One idea I had is a dhampir wizard who works as an advokist in the Orzhov Syndicate, with a vampire parent. Imagine a combination of Dracula, Saul Goodman and Tom Hagen from the Godfather. A literal blood sucking lawyer.
It might have been brought up before , but its "Golgari" , but besides that , very nice video :) Keep up the good work
Ravnica is my favorite setting, every guild has its own flavor and its so hard to just pick one, House Dimir is close to my heart tho. Btw a small mispelling in the Golgari Swarm, you wrote and said "Galgari" 😉
Darn it! 😂 Oh well, I can't expect perfection
Jace: Peace, I have to do something in another plane *expend 4 months out of Ravnica.*
Guilds: Well.... Is time to war.
Campains in this setting are so fun. I DM a session with a Boros minotaur eldrish knight, A human Dimir assassin, A human Azzorius cleric and a Tabaxi monk that was inclined to selesnya but wasn't committed yet. Was REALLY fun to see the bickery in the table!
Good to see so many colors represented! 😂
I would love to play a guildless Sherlock Holmes style detective, or maybe they do belong to a guild but masquerade as guildless to appear more trustworthy to their many clients. Inquistive Rogue or Masterminf Rogue, maybe mixed with wizard to get detection spells and things to solve mysteries. Seems very cool for a mystery/political intrigue campaign in this setting.
We now actually have a canon character like this. Hi, Alquist Proft!
When the book first came out, I tried to run a Ravnica campaign. I was a new DM and I didn't know how to run a game, much less one set in Ravnica. And so, it fizzled out pretty quickly. But I might write up some notes for one at some point, now that my knowledge and note taking has vastly improved. My party was a Gruul Clan Elf Ranger, an Izzet League Knowledge Cleric/Divination Wizard, and a Golgari Circle of Spores Druid. A bit of a hectic and spread-out group to try and run a game for, all told.
That's fair! Factions within the party could be real difficult without practice!
So we have ravnica, we have theros, we have strixhaven, bits of planes like Dominaria, Kaladesh and Ixalan and fan takes on planes like Kamigawa, Kaldheim and New Capenna... At this rate a multiversal mtg campaign is literally possible w/o guesswork... The kicker is how to make it uniquely different mechanically speaking from other settings. I wonder if one can fit a 60 card, maybe 30 card instead, of mtg as an alternate combat system with decks built to represent the character's method and philosophy and a color-based alignment system.
I actually do think about my characters' colors when I'm designing them for MTG plane settings!
Honestly, Ravnica as a setting does feel a bit weak and artificial in a vacuum, but it's guilds make for fantastic copy-paste-tweak factions to put into any high magic setting.
Really enjoyed some of the character ideas here as well, with plenty of newer subclasses being retroactively applied here.
Completely agree!! Will be taking elements from the Boros in my own game here soon!
Here are some of my ideas:
(Izzet) Owlin Artillerist Artificer
(Boros) Leonin Conquest Paladin
(Rakdos) Satyr Swords Bard
(Trying this again, since my internet cut out when I tried to post this comment)
Hey, my dad's been talking about wanting to run Darksun for my group sometime. I only know that it's a post-apocalyptic climate change allegory, but I was wondering if you could maybe do a video for Darksun character ideas? Great video, btw
This is the best video introduction I have seen to Ravnica as a D&D setting.
But I disagree about Boros being chaotic. It is full of disciplined soldiers, paladins and even angels. The name 'Legion' should be clue enough, and Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica gives its alignment as "usually good, often lawful".
There is certainly room to play a chaotic character in Boros. But in time-honoured tradition, when you break the rules, your boss will punish you in some way, or take you off the case.
In my opinion, chaotic good is the alignment most likely to be guildless. I would imagine Selesnya most likely has the highest proportion of chaotic good members. Of course, Grull and both the mad science guilds are full of people who regard themselves as doing good, but are tragically misunderstood by the more hidebound guilds.
This may be a stretch but I kinda hope you do a vid of Tarkir Characters, heads up there's some wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff lol
The video i was looking for. No idea how to begin with the a lot of ideas i have for this settings. Once again, congratulations from Spain.
Did it for you! Lol
@@TheClericCorner I swaer i begun to write all my ideas but get erased. Gonna begin again. Okey. Here I go
AZORIUS SENATE
Human Artificier (Armorer)
Human Barbarian (Path of Zealot)
Human Bard (College of Eloquence, a lawyer)
Vedalken Warlock (Primordial Patron - Pact of the Tome, i thought it was the best patron to represent Isperia, glad if you can find some kind of Sphinx Patron Homebrew)
Vedalken Cleric (Order Domain)
Half-Elf Druid (Arctic Land Circle//Dimir Agent)
Vedalken Ranger (Horizon Walker)
Human Fighter (Master of Battle)
Human Sorcerer (Clockwork Soul)
Vedalken Wizard (Divination)
Human Monk (Way of the Four Elements - Air)
Centaur Paladin (Oath of the Crown, she betrayed the Gruul Clans)
Human Rogue (Inquisitor, some kind of detective/policemen)
BOROS LEGION
Human Artificer (Alquemist, some kind of Battle Healer)
Minotaur Barbarian (Path of Berserker//Dimir Agent)
Viashino (Lizardfolk) Warlock (Celestial Patron - Pact of the Blade, to represent Aurelia)
Minotaur Cleric (Light Domain)
Human Druid (Wildfire Circle)
Human Ranger (Beastmaster, her pet is a dog with armor)
Goblin Fighter (Banneret, Even the tiniest of people can influence the course of the future)
Human Sorcerer (Elementalist - Fire)
Human Wizard (Bladesinger)
Minotaur Monk (Way of the Sun)
Human Paladin (Oath of Devotion)
Goblin Rogue (Sawsbuckler)
HOUSE DIMIR
Dhampir Cleric (Trickery Domain)
Human Bard (Whisper College)
Human Sorcerer (Shadow Magic)
Human Monk (Way of Shadows)
The other classes can be found on their respective infiltrated guilds
Golgari Swarm since day one.
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I think you mean Galgori Swarm. Haven't you seen the video?
@@philibusterpodcast2850😭
I have a simic hybrid aberrant mind sorcerer who grew up in the combine but became a dimir double agent and mind mage :)
Love that!
I thought the subclass was perfect for a mesh of the two guilds what with the emphasis on enchantment and divination + subtle casting + tentacles and weird body horror
Boros all day everyday
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Yoooo
You misspelled Golgari at the beginning of their segment.
Bound to be one 😅